HP /ALM/QC Supporting Third party Tools

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Rally –Integration  with ALM:

What is Rally Tool is all about?

Rally’s cloud-based, Agile software management platform gives you full control over how to extend, adapt, and integrate Rally to meet your organization's needs.

Rally is one of the market  leader in Agile application lifecycle management (ALM) dedicated to making distributed development organizations faster and leaner by dramatically cutting the time, cost and effort needed to deliver high quality applications. According to a study by QSM Associates, software-driven companies that rely on Rally's Agile ALM products and services are 50% faster to market and 25% more productive than industry averages.

Rally's products were honored with four consecutive Jolt awards (the software industry's equivalent of the Oscar award) in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. The company's end-to-end solutions for Agile development

HP Quality Center Benefits:

Features:

• Choose any work item (defect, user story, test case, or test case result)

• Filter on certain work items to synchronize

• Map most fields

• Choose field transfer direction

• Default field values for required fields

• Easily map disparate user names

• Easily map different dropdown fields between systems

• Choose which services to run: copy to Rally, copy to QC, update to Rally, update to QC, update Rally   fields and QC fields

• Easily map to Rally's project structure

• Multiple extension points for customization

SAP Solution manager

Standard platform for a holistic Application Lifecycle Management

SAP Solution Manager is the standard platform for Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), and plays a decisive role within the ALM tools.

Besides providing SAP functionality itself, SAP Solution Manager integrates the other tools to ensure a comprehensive approach.

It enables the central access to all required functions and central availability of all required information.

Additionally, SAP Solution Manager facilitates the efficient collaboration between your company and the SAP support organization to optimize the value of your support engagement

Integration of HP ALM 11 52_SOLMAN_ARIS Importation Process

It describes the basic ARIS export steps, and the base HP ALM Import steps.

 Additionally discussed is the lifecycle of Business Models into the Central Repository and the general process for passing this information along to a new project.

Pre-Requisites

Exporter

ARIS Business Architect must be installed and licensed for the ARIS export process to work.  

Importer

The individual responsible for importing into HP ALM 11.52 is not required to have ARIS Business Architect installed, but must have the XML files, and Business Models Module Access in HP ALM 11.52

HP ALM/HP QC Integration Tasktop Synchronizer

Use Tasktop Sync to connect development, QA, and project management, with the Tasktop Sync server solution. Tasktop Sync is the only ALM synchronization solution built on the industry-standard Eclipse Mylyn ALM integration framework. Tasktop Sync provides real-time synchronization, automated conflict resolution, and support for over two dozen ALM tools.

Tasktop provides industry-leading support for HP Quality Center (QC) and HP ALM with both Tasktop Dev and Tasktop Sync products. Tasktop has a very strong relationship with HP, as Tasktop Dev and Tasktop Sync integrate with HP ALM and HP Quality Center. This integration enables HP users to be integrated into development, project management and requirements management, allowing requirements, work items, test artifacts and defects to be managed within HP ALM while be worked on in other tools used by other groups. Through Tasktop Sync, Tasktop's server-based integration hub, data is synchronized between HP QC / ALM and third party tools without the users of either tool knowing that the record they are working on is also being worked on in other tools. This ‘invisible’ integration allows for a truly integrated lifecycle that increases transparency, governance and collaboration. Tasktop Dev, which forms a major part of HP Application Lifecycle Intelligence, provides developers with access to HP QC and HP ALM artifacts from the comfort of their Eclipse or Visual Studio IDE.

List of Supporting Tools : Jira

Atlassian JIRA provides bug, issue and project tracking and reporting and analysis with an artifact-based workflow engine aimed at helping development teams deliver software faster. When combined with Tasktop Sync, a server-based integration platform, not only can organizations manage all their issues within JIRA, but they can also extend the reach of JIRA into artifacts that within other tools. This allows for a JIRA-led managed development approach across your heterogeneous tool stack. Tasktop Sync provides capabilities that allow users to define how JIRA issues map to third party artifacts by describing workflow transitions and attribute transformations. This allows JIRA to work in perfect harmony with third party tools, such as HP QC, IBM RTC or MS TFS.

StarTeam-> Change and Configuration Management Tool – Manage, Track, Deliver

The Borland Connector provides Eclipse, Visual Studio and external ALM system integration for StarTeam, a robust and scalable platform for coordinating and managing the entire software delivery process across diverse methodologies and distributed teams. With the connector, StarTeam development teams gain advanced traceability, visibility and reporting across development activity in the IDE via Tasktop Dev and across dozens of ALM systems via Tasktop Sync.

The Borland Connector for Eclipse provides integrated access to StarTeam project and change management artifacts and fully supports Mylyn’s task-focused interface developer productivity technology, which automatically focuses developers on the code that is relevant for a given task. The connector also seamlessly extends Borland’s StarTeam Eclipse Client (STEC) to provide task-focused SCM operations and automate traceability between source code changes and the corresponding task.

The connector is also available for Tasktop Sync, which connects project management, development, and QA in heterogeneous IT environments by providing instant data synchronization between StarTeam and dozens of ALM systems. With Sync, organizations can ensure each stakeholder has access to the data that they need within their primary tool while providing visibility and comprehensive reporting across systems from within StarTeam

JazzConnect-HPQC-RTC

JazzConnect-HPQC-RTC provides bi-directional information exchange between IBM Rational Team Concert and IBM Rational Requirements Composer via the HP Quality Center Synchronizer

The synchronizer enables a true collaboration between users of IBM Rational and HP Quality Center.

JazzConnect-HPQC-RTC manages HPQC Defects and/or Requirements synchronizing with IBM Rational Team Concert Work Items.

Features:

•         Based on the standard integration platform provided by HP's Quality Center Synchronizer

•         Graphical Administrator console for managing integration schedule, rules and field mappings

•         Graphical integrity reporting to ensure integration eules are correct

•         Bi-directional synchronization

•         Supports customised schemas

•         Supports multiple projects

•         Data value translation between systems

•         Advanced logging and email notification

•         LDAP and User Mapped user management

•         Initialization and Migration

•         No modifications to RTC/RRC or HPQC configuration required

•         Conflict resolution management

Load Testing with NeoLoad and 3rd Party Integrations:-

Application Lifecycle Management Tools

NeoLoad integrates with your application lifecycle management chain to empower and accelerate the delivery of secure and reliable applications. The majority of ALM tools and Quality management platforms such as HP Quality Center can leverage load & performance testing functionality through automated tests executed by NeoLoad. Key features such as “start” or “schedule a test” can be setup in minutes. Comprehensive reporting results can be integrated in your test management dashboard via XML

Additionally, Neotys delivers a plugin to be deployed on Quality Center that helps team members plan

NeoLoad tests and track test status

Integrate IBM Rational Requirements Composer and HP ALM with Rational Lifecycle Adapters

If you use HP Application Lifecycle Management software (HP ALM) for quality management, you can use the IBM Rational Adapter for HP ALM to integrate data with Rational Requirements Composer, Rational DOORS Next Generation, Rational Team Concert, or Rational ClearQuest. Developers, testers, and analysts can then work in their own tools and collaborate with each other by using linked resources. This demonstration shows how the Rational Adapter for HP ALM integrates data across HP ALM and Rational requirements management tools. The demo shows Rational Requirements Composer, but DOORS Next Generation works the same way

CA Clarity Agile:

Tasktop Sync for CA Clarity Agile and CA Clarity Requirements automatically synchronizes tasks, requirements, stories and issues with third party systems such as Microsoft TFS, HP Quality Center, IBM RTC and JIRA.

This allows CA Clarity Agile users to view, update, and centrally report over information from these external systems without disrupting existing technologies and processes. For example, a defect created in an external system can be automatically created as an Issue in CA Clarity Agile and then all changes are kept in sync bi-directionally

Serena HP Quality Center Integration

Serena and HP provide an integrated solution that enables business analysts, development teams, and quality assurance professionals to quickly address their most critical requests and issues. By orchestrating and streamlining traditionally manual processes between issue and defect management, requirements management, software change management, and quality assurance, Serena and HP give IT executives real time visibility and comprehensive traceability throughout the entire application

Development lifecycle

Serena ALM and HP Quality Center

Serena provides a comprehensive Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) software  suite, with products that can seamlessly work with HP Quality Center, including:

Serena Business Manager: this solution orchestrates, integrates, and automates development processes between Serena products and third-party products, including HP Quality Center

Serena Issue and Defect Management: Provides an automated process for developers to view issues in their queue, share commit information directly from within their IDE tools, and track code changes

Serena Dimensions RM: Offers distributed teams a collaborative way to capture detailed requirements, manage changes, and perform traceability analysis

Serena Dimensions CM: provides a single global repository for distributed development teams to manage complex configurations, view full histories of change records, and manage baselines

Key Capabilities:

Integration between Serena and HP provides IT organizations the following capabilities to more efficiently manage their issues, requirements, software configurations, and tests:

• Automatically create items – such as defects, work requests, requirements, and test  cases – based on specific actions in HP Quality Center or Serena products

• Synchronize items, statuses, and fields between Serena products and HP Quality Center as items progress through the development lifecycle

• Track history of changes across HP and Serena products

For software defects, Serena and HP provide a closed-loop process for development and quality teams. When a defect is created in HP Quality Center, Serena Business Manager (SBM) automatically opens an issue in Serena Issue and Defect Management.

SBM can also assign the issue to a developer as a work request in Dimensions CM, so the developer can immediately start working on the issue. As the developer updates the work request, information in HP Quality Center is automatically updated via the process

Orchestration capabilities of SBM. Once the QA team verifies the fix, they can close out the defect in HP Quality Center, which automatically closes the issue and updates the information in all Serena products.

VersionOne - V1: Agile Team, V1: Agile Enterprise, V1: Agile Ideas

VersionOne's first project management tools were designed for eXtreme Programming and Scrum. Today, they support a broader set of methodologies including DSDM, Agile UP, and Lean/Kanban. Their software suite includes V1: Agile Team--for small teams that are new to agile, V1: Agile Enterprise--a full ALM for large, experienced agile teams, and V1: Agile Ideas--a customer collaboration portal for logging and prioritizing feature requests. VersionOne also provides an open web service Java API, a .NET SDK, and free integration connectors to third-party software development tools.

ThoughtWorks - Mingle

ThoughtWorks' project management tool, Mingle, is known for having one of the most user-friendly interfaces. It focuses on tracking business objectives and focusing on customer specifications throughout the application lifecycle. Other ALM tools by ThoughtWorks include Twist, for test automation, and Cruise, for release management. ThoughtWorks' philosophy of "Adaptive ALM" focuses on adapting management tools to the developer team, rather than running the team according to the nature of the tools.

IBM - ClearCase, ClearQuest

The Rational Software division at IBM has a robust selection of ALM applications that integrate with and complement each other in a variety of development processes. ClearQuest is a powerful workflow automation tool that can be tailored to model any type of workflow. ClearCase is IBM's source code revision tool that can run on a number of platforms and handle a large number of files while running lightweight. Its most distinguishing feature is the MultiVersion File System (MVFS) which supports dynamic views to map software configuration.

Go2Group ConnectALL

Is the complexity of your ALM environment limiting your success?

Application Lifecycle Management is critical for any enterprise. Different business functions prefer may use different tools, leading to a complex setup: Multiple teams, multiple ALM tools and data sources. That kind of complexity is a huge challenge to accelerate development and deliver quality products to your customers.

Unify your teams, processes and data sources and empower your ALM collaboration with ConnectALL, an enterprise class solution that accelerates your product development by unifying your data across all ALM systems. Everyone in your organization can continue to work in the ALM system they choose while, ConnectALL synchronizes data, workflow and requirements – automatically!

Highlights

ALM support

ConnectALL works with what you have. It supports most enterprise-class ALM systems giving you a stable and integrated platform for Change Management, Requirements Gathering, Quality Management, Version Control, and Project Management.

Real-time synchronization

Automatic, bi-directional data synchronization integrates distributed systems. Enables global teams and OEMs collaboration in near to real-time, with limited access to your main systems and other projects.

Conflict management

ConnectALL eliminates confusion and errors. It automatically detects and resolves conflicts in the ALM ecosystem with its built-in, robust conflict detection mechanism.

Tune agility

Develop to the full potential of Agile development methodology. Automatically unified ALM systems improve – speed, flexibility, and cross functional collaboration.

Enhanced visibility See the complete picture in one ALM tool while you allow different teams to use their preferred applications.

Simple configuration Build with security, performance and ease of use as central features. Easy configuration makes it easy to achieve tight integration and collaboration between ALM systems. A simple user interface lets you customize mappings.

High-end customization Customize business rules and tackle unlikely events of failure

 Worksoft Certify: is the industry’s top ranked software for automated business process validation (BPV) in SAP® environments. Certify automates the functional testing of mission-critical processes end-to-end across complex application landscapes, including web technologies, mobile apps, hybrid cloud environments, and dozens of non-SAP enterprise applications.

Worksoft Certify has been adopted by hundreds of SAP companies worldwide to replace costly and time-consuming manual testing methods. With automation, organizations can innovate faster, avoid technology risk in a high-change environment, and achieve continuous quality in end-to-end business processes – all with less effort.

With Worksoft Certify, there’s no scripting and no programming. Best of all, you can begin seeing results in 90 days or less. Worksoft Certify helps companies Validate business process quality on a 24/7 basis across all systems and interfaces

• Shorten project timelines, giving your experts more time to spend on high value activities

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• Increase business agility with the rapid validation of application changes to accelerate software deployment

• Lower technology risk, by resolving defects earlier – before they enter production

• Eliminate time and cost of manual quality assurance activities through automation

• Increase staff efficiency with accurate documentation of business processes for training and compliance

• Collaborate better, using a shared, easy-to-use platform for IT and business process experts

Reliable way to ensure quality across your application landscape. Automation is the new industry standard, and Worksoft Certify is the only solution on the market to help SAP organizations achieve these results